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The
beginning of John’s Jesus is very different from those of Mark, Luke and
Matthew. John’s Jesus is not introduced as a man from Galilee or the son of
Mary and the Holy Spirit. One word describes John’s Jesus:

SOURCESuddenly there
was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:Glory to God in the highest,Peace on earth and good will toward men. The
message of the angels to the shepherds in Luke’s account is one of the most
powerful messages in the New Testament. It has been memorized by children for
centuries and touched the hearts of millions who long for – “peace on earth and good will toward men.”
It is a message that hearts understand,
regardless of the doctrines lodged in the minds. In
the context of the Gospel of Luke, the message of the angels announced the
birth of Jesus. Before the multitude of angels appeared, a lone angel delivered
this message to a group of shepherds that were spending the night in the field
with their flock: “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good
tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this
day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Anointed One of the Lord.”
(Luke 2:10-11) It was after th…

This
is third Gospel account of the beginnings of Jesus. We are examining them in
chronological order – Mark, Luke, Matthew and John. David the king
begot Solomon by her who had
been the wife of Uriah. Solomon begot Rehoboam . . . And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of
whom was born Jesus who is called the Anointed One. (1:6-7)

In the sixth month God sent the angel
Gabriel to Nazareth of Galilee to Mary an unmarried young woman engaged to
Joseph, of the house of David. (1:26-27) Luke begins by
letting readers know that this event took place “in the sixth month,” which is the month of Elul (August/September) on the Jewish calendar. If this is
correct, then Jesus could not have been born in December, as Christians have
been taught for the past 1,700 years. This may be a factor in why some
translators inserted something in their translation that is not found in the
ancient Greek manuscripts. Read the rest of the study at -- http://fromonejesus.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-different-beginnings-of-jesus-in_20.html

The modern New Testament canon contains four Gospels. When they are placed in chronological order (the order in which they were written) they are: Mark, Luke, Matthew & John. They were written as separate scrolls and circulated that way at first. Each Gospel was “the” Gospel of different congregations in the early years of Christianity. Then copies were made and shared by communities until the first New Testament canons appeared. There are many other gospels in existence, but only the four above ultimately were chosen by Athanasius to be in the New Testament he created in the 4th century.

This is the Christmas season and the “Christmas story” is told often, but the story we hear and see in school plays and church services is not found in that form in any of the Gospels. It was created by taking stories from multiple Gospels and putting them all together. But that destroys the ancient accounts of Jesus’s beginnings that were known in the different early congregations. This is the …

Before
we turn to the Greek text, we need to discuss chapter and verse markers in the
Bible. They are not found in the ancient Greek manuscripts. Classically,
scrolls of the books of the bible have always been divided by blank spaces at
the end (petuhoth) or middle (setumoth) of the lines. Stephen Langton, Archbisho…

When
we look back down the timeline of Christianity to the period in which Jesus
lived, an inch on the timeline can cover centuries. The importance of many of the events that
took place during that inch are unknown today, along with the people that lived
in that inch. This is a reality that every genealogist comes to understand very
quickly. We also learn another very important truth – every one of the people in my line of ancestors had to live for me to exist.
It took them all to create my DNA.

But,
there is more to each of us than a collection of genes that made their way
across time to become our part of our DNA – our
beliefs were also making their way across time to become part of our Belief
Systems. Genes and beliefs both
affect how we understand, view and understand our world and the things that
happen in it. Until we learn about the journeys of our genes and beliefs, we
live our lives completely unaware of their origins and roles. Read the complete
blog at -- http://fromonejes…

When
we look back down the timeline of Christianity to the period in which Jesus
lived, an inch on the timeline can cover centuries. The importance of many of the events that
took place during that inch are unknown today, along with the people that lived
in that inch. This is a reality that every genealogist comes to understand very
quickly. We also learn another very important truth – every one of the people in my line of ancestors had to live for me to exist.
It took them all to create my DNA.

But,
there is more to each of us than a collection of genes that made their way
across time to become our part of our DNA – our
beliefs were also making their way across time to become part of our Belief
Systems. Genes and beliefs both
affect how we understand, view and understand our world and the things that
happen in it. Until we learn about the journeys of our genes and beliefs, we
live our lives completely unaware of their origins and roles. Read the complete
blog at -- http://fromonejes…

The
purpose of this lesson is to make you more familiar with specific Hebrew
letters. You have probably noticed that some of them look very similar and that
there are cases where two Hebrew letters are transliterated by the same English
letters. You will also learn the Hebrew Alphabet Song so you can easily
memorize the Hebrew alphabet. Click here to go to lesson -- http://bhcbiblestudies.blogspot.com/2013/11/part-2-how-to-translate-hebrew-words.html

Learning
how to transliterations of Greek and Hebrew words will elevate your level of
Bible study skills tremendously. Even if you have never seen a Greek or Hebrew words before, in the next 30 minutes you will learn how to use the BHC Greek & Hebrew Transliterators -- and will have taken the first steps to being able to work with the Greek & Hebrew languages. We created these BHC Bible Study Tool
to help you & they are FREE! Begin by learning how to transliterate Hebrew words by clicking on -- http://bhcbiblestudies.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-to-transliterate-hebrew-words.html Then, learn how to transliterate Greek words by clicking on -- http://bhcbiblestudies.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-to-transliterate-greek-words.html When you finish, you will have your own BHC Greek and Hebrew Transliterators to use in your own Bible studies. They are both essential tools for learning about the Real Yeshua.

The lamp
of the body is the eye. Therefore, if you are a generous person that
gives to the poor your whole body will be full of light. But if you are a stingy or greedy person who gives
his poor needy brother nothing, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light
that is in you is darkness,
how great is that darkness! (Matthew
6:22-23) My
two previous blogs have unlocked the meanings of the two idioms Yeshua used in
the verses above: (1) good eye– a generous person that gives to the
poor (2) evil eye
– a stingy or greedy person who gives his
needy brother nothing Now
let’s turn our attention to the words light
and darkness. In the Jewish
culture light and life are often used synonymously. This
relationship can be found in numerous examples, like the one below. "Better to extinguish the light on Sabbath than to
extinguish life, which is God's light" (Shab. 30b).[i] The
parallels are clear: (1) light
= life (2) darkness
= death The
relationship of the Creator a…